Friday, 20 March 2015

Evolution of the back-to-belly axis

EARLY EARTH
Evolution of the back-to-belly axis
Vienna, Austria (SPX) Mar 19, 2015 - Most animals have a dorso-ventral (back-to-belly) body axis, which determines for instance the localized position of the central nervous system, dorsal in humans, ventral in insects. Surprisingly, despite enormous morphological differences, the same signaling molecules of Bone morphogenetic protein (BMP) molecules establishes the dorso-ventral axis including the central nervous system in b ... more


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